千年悬案：记载在《宋史》中的神秘UFO事件(一）

最近给小宝贝讲睡前故事，想找一些有趣的故事。比如今天这个被记入正史的宋朝UFO目击事件就很特别。

UFO事件总是很有话题性，就连美国国会也会经常召开所谓的UFO听证会，透露出点点信息来满足公众的好奇心。虽然绝大部分的UFO目击事件都有合理的科学解释，但也有一些记录连政府都承认无法解释。虽然UFO主要以近代和当代的记录为主，但这个现象实际上是跨越时空的。在古代，特别是中国这种对历史有详细文字记录的文明，就记录了一些UFO目击事件。

其中最有意思的就是一则记载在正史《宋史》当中的UFO目击事件——北宋真宗年间的"帽妖"事件。事情的起因是在当时的东都洛阳，有人在夜间看到了UFO。按照目击者的描述，UFO的形状类似宋朝的官帽，上面会发出红光，而且飞行速度非常快。这些描述非常类似于现代的UFO目击记录。

但这些传言从目击者开始扩散开去，逐渐就走了样。从一开始的不明飞行物，逐渐演变成这些不明飞行物还会变身成狼妖下来抓人。一时间闹得洛阳居民人心惶惶，甚至专门组织起了由未婚小伙子组成的捉妖巡逻队，因为人们认为这些未婚小伙子阳气最足，最容易克制"帽妖"。

这场谣言并没有就此平息，而是像病毒一样扩散到了邻近地区。不久之后，真宗皇帝就接到了关于这一事件的报告。真宗皇帝重视这件事，并非因为他是UFO科幻迷，而是报告中提到民间自行组织的武装巡逻队引起了他的警觉。宋朝之所以能够终结五代十国割据的乱世，就是因为宋太祖废除兵权，剥夺了地方节度使的军权，组建禁军，将军权掌握在自己手里。

由于这件事是由洛阳邻近地区的官员上报的，作为事件的发源地，洛阳的官员没有主动向朝廷报告这起社会动荡事件，让皇帝觉得洛阳地方官员有懒政的嫌疑。于是派人下去调查"帽妖"事件。调查组来到洛阳之后，当地官员却没有一点政治觉悟，只说从未听说过这种事情，不过是底下百姓以讹传讹而已。

调查组的人自然知道皇上并非关心UFO的真假，而是担心民间散布谣言。但处理这件事情必须师出有名，还是得从UFO事件下手。于是在洛阳蹲守了几日，这些天就好像UFO躲着这帮钦差一样，竟然没有出现过。

但洛阳的UFO不在洛阳出现，反倒直奔北宋的都城开封。谣言也扩散到了宋朝的都城，传言变得更加离奇：帽妖来去无踪，在空中飞行极快，还会变身狼人，不仅抓人还会吃人。京城百姓人心惶惶，最后连禁军都惊动了。到了晚上，整个东京开封城就鼓声喧天，百姓敲锣打鼓驱赶妖怪。整个禁军营地也仿佛上了战场一般，士兵们喊杀声此起彼伏，吓得真宗皇帝心惊胆战。

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Recently, I was reading a bedtime story to my baby, looking for some interesting stories. For example, this Song Dynasty UFO sighting recorded in official history today is very special.

UFO events are always very topical, and even the US Congress often holds so-called UFO hearings, revealing bits of information to satisfy the curiosity of the public. While the vast majority of UFO sightings have a reasonable scientific explanation, there are some records that even the government admits cannot be explained. Although Ufos are dominated by modern and contemporary records, the phenomenon actually spans time and space. In ancient times, especially China, a civilization with a detailed written record of its history, recorded some UFO sightings.

One of the most interesting is a UFO sighting recorded in the official history of the Song Dynasty - the "hat demon" incident in the Northern Song Dynasty Zhenzong. The cause of the incident was a UFO sighting at night in Luoyang, the eastern capital of the time. According to eyewitness descriptions, the shape of the UFO is similar to the official hat of the Song Dynasty, which emits red light and flies very fast. These descriptions are very similar to modern UFO sightings.

But the rumors started to spread from the witnesses, and gradually lost their way. What started out as Ufos, gradually evolved into these Ufos that would turn into wolf-monsters coming down to catch people. For a time, Luoyang residents were terrified, and even organized a special patrol composed of unmarried young men to catch the demon, because people believed that these unmarried young men were the most masculine, the easiest to restrain the "hat demon."

The rumor did not die down, but spread like a virus to neighboring areas. Soon after, Emperor Zhenzong received a report of the incident. Emperor Zhenzong took this matter seriously, not because he was a fan of UFO science fiction, but because he was alarmed by reports of self-organized armed patrols. The reason why the Song Dynasty was able to end the chaos of the five dynasties and ten States was that Song Taizu abolished the military power, deprived the military power of the local governor, set up a forbidden army, and the general power was in his own hands.

Since the incident was reported by officials in nearby Luoyang, where the incident originated, officials in Luoyang did not voluntarily report the social unrest to the court, which made the emperor feel that the local officials in Luoyang were suspected of lazy governance. So they sent someone down to investigate the Hat-demon incident. After the investigation team came to Luoyang, the local officials did not have any political consciousness, only said that they had never heard of such a thing, but that the people under the false information.

The investigation team naturally knew that the emperor was not concerned about the authenticity of the UFO, but worried about the spread of rumors among the people. But the way to deal with this is to have a reputation, or start with the UFO incident. So in Luoyang squatting for a few days, these days just like the UFO hiding from this gang of imperial officers, did not appear.

However, the UFO in Luoyang did not appear in Luoyang, but went straight to Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. The rumors also spread to the Song capital, and the rumors became even more bizarre: Hat-monsters came and went without trace, flew extremely fast through the air, and transformed into werewolves, not only catching people but also eating them. The people of the capital were terrified, and finally even the Forbidden Army was alarmed. In the evening, the whole Tokyo Kaifeng city is noisy with drums, and people beat gongs and drums to drive away monsters. The whole Forbidden army camp also seemed to be on the battlefield, and the soldiers shouted killing one after another, which frightened the Emperor Zhenzong.